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Review of Buzzard (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 23 Aug 2017

Lacking a third act, Buzzard is less of a complete story than a slow-motion car crash, but then again, there are few things more fascinating…

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Review of The Salvation (2014)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 23 Aug 2017

The Salvation is a gorgeous-looking western with no other aims than being a gorgeous-looking western…

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Review of The D Train (2015)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 23 Aug 2017

Unexpected developments ensue, including actual hilarity, amazing [Jack] Black-[James] Marsden chemistry, and a scorched-earth subversion of…

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Review of Life Partners (2014)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 23 Aug 2017

The focus is ultimately on Sasha and Paige's friendship, and how Paige's successes cause Sasha to reflect on her own failures, though being…

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Review of While We're Young (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 23 Aug 2017

Among other things, Noah Baumbach's very funny While We're Young is a rumination on the Long Tail, the theory that pop culture remains accessible…

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Review of Kill Me Three Times (2015)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 23 Aug 2017

This is wrung-out neo-noir with no true blackness left intact, like a soggy heap of faded laundry…

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Review of Live from New York! (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 23 Aug 2017

Nguyen's film does deserve credit for not only not shying away from its subject's darker moments, but addressing them head-on in the first act…

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Review of Little Accidents (2014)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 23 Aug 2017

If this story seems inorganic, or in any case less authentic than its well-observed atmosphere, at least the storyteller has seen and seized…

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Review of I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story (2015)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 23 Aug 2017

A slathering of sentimentally triumphant music emphasizes what seems like a feeling of protectiveness for their subject, but fair enough…

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Review of Song One (2014)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 23 Aug 2017

Song One seems unabashedly fond of romantic rooftop wee-hours hangouts in front of Manhattan skyline bokeh backdrops…

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Review of In the Name of My Daughter (2014)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 23 Aug 2017

A true crime story of money and power and sex and betrayal and missing persons and the mafia, André Téchiné's French Riviera-set film stars…

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Review of Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 23 Aug 2017

Magician is a good primer for those who are unfamiliar with Welles, while functioning as a greatest-hits reel for students of the man…

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Review of Misery Loves Comedy (2015)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 23 Aug 2017

[Kevin] Pollak isn't taking a solve-for-x approach here so much as simply geeking out with his fellow tribesmen (and a few -women), who may…

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Review of The Search for General Tso (2014)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 23 Aug 2017

The Search for General Tso is also a history of the Chinese immigrant experience in America, as the way into the hearts of xenophobic white…

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Review of Dave Made a Maze (2017)

By Anita Katz (182) for SF Weekly (560) on 17 Aug 2017

Had this movie run longer than 80 minutes, its novelty would likely have faded, and the thinness of the plot would have become problematically…

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Review of Escapes (2017)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 16 Aug 2017

The resulting film is what The Kid Stays in the Picture might have been like if Robert Evans had lacked his driving ambition and peaked with…

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Review of Ingrid Goes West (2017)

By Jeffrey Edalatpour (80) for SF Weekly (560) on 16 Aug 2017

Plaza, who normally sheds crocodile tears, here cries real ones with equal amounts of distress, insecurity, and despair…

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Review of Marjorie Prime (2017)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 16 Aug 2017

Marjorie Prime is ultimately more about its ideas than its characters, but that's OK, because they're fascinating ideas…

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Review of My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (2013)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 09 Aug 2017

The Equestria Girls films shine like rainbows when focusing on their own universe's characters…

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Review of Whose Streets? (2017)

By Jeffrey Edalatpour (80) for SF Weekly (560) on 09 Aug 2017

If you have any doubts that this country is racially divided and at war with itself, the film will erase them once and for all…

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